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Titanic survivor’s signed life jacket sells for over $900,000

Laura Mabel Francatelli was on Titanic’s lifeboat No. 1, with only eleven other passengers, despite the small vessel's 40-person capacity.

A life-preserver of Laura Mabel Francatelli, a survivor of the Titanic disaster is displayed before the auction of Maritime Models and Maritime Pictures at Christie's Auction House in West London, 16 May 2007.
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A rare first edition copy of a Superman comic, forgotten for many years in an attic, sold for more than $9 million at a Texas auction house, making it reportedly the most expensive comic ever sold.

Forgotten treasure: First-edition Superman comic fetches millions at auction after attic discovery

 Digital art of the RMS Titanic at sunset.

Titanic tragedy of prominent Jewish couple resurfaces in record auction


Israeli court halts auction of tattoo kit said to have been used at Auschwitz

A tattoo kit, billed as having been used on Auschwitz inmates during the Holocaust, was offered for auction before a Tel Aviv court suspended the auction.

 A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR holds a Torah as he arrives at the entrance to Auschwitz for the annual March of the Living marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in May.

Symbol of horror: Auschwitz tattoo set for sale in Jerusalem auction

The Nazis started tattooing numbers on prisoners at Auschwitz in the fall of 1941, using a metal mold about an inch and a half long in which needles are arranged in the shape of numbers.

Polish-born Holocaust survivor Meyer Hack shows his prisoner number tattooed on his arm during a news conference at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem June 15, 2009.

Van Gogh painting looted by Nazis expected to sell for $30 million

Van Gogh's Wheat Stacks is being auctioned by Christie's * This is the first time the painting is being displayed publicly since 1905.

 A self portrait of Vincent Van Gogh

Medieval Jewish prayerbook sells for near-record $8.3 million

The item, which was sold to an unnamed private buyer, comes out of the collection of the Alliance Israélite Universelle.

 A 1,200-year-old Jewish prayer book, or siddur, is displayed at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, 2014

Israeli mystic Uri Geller auctions NFT of personal artwork on OpenSea

Uri Geller's series, titled "11 Flowers," features 11 unique flower drawings produced from his own collection. The first such image, "Flower 1," is currently up for auction.

Israeli psychic Uri Geller poses for photographers in Cologne

Dozens of Nazi items up for auction on Australian site

Among the Nazi items offered for auction is a WWII "Jewish Star of David" armband, a Waffen SS Cap insignia and a hand-embroidered retired Nazi officer shoulder patch.

A Nazi armband with a swastika displayed in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

A Jewish library’s treasure surfaced at auction. How did it get there?

Along with its new digitized contents, the Jewish Museum in Moscow will not be without books, especially Russian and Yiddish tomes

Montreal auction house selling Nazi memorabilia as 'historical artifacts'

Nazi relics and memorabilia were put up for sale on a Montreal auction site, including weapons, badges, and clothing once belonging to supporters of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany.

A Nazi armband with a swastika displayed in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

Rare bottles of wine crafted by Holocaust victims to be put on auction

The Zimmerman family was one of the 437,402 Hungarian Jews that were deported to Auschwitz during the Holocaust.

YIRON, GALIL Mountain Winery’s flagship wine, offers particularly good value.

Napoleon's bicentenary: Stocking, bloodied cloth among items up for auction

The former French emperor died on May 5, 1821, aged 51, on the southern Atlantic Ocean island of Saint Helena.

 A bronze bust named "The First Consul Bonaparte" according to Louis-Simon Boizot (1743-1809) is displayed at Osenat auction house, before being put on auction for the bicentenary of Napoleon's death, in Fontainebleau, near Paris, France, April 30, 2021